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It was business as usual at Starbucks one day after CEO Howard Schultz said guns were no longer welcome at any of its cafes.<p>The nation's largest gun rights groups have this early response to Starbucks no longer "welcoming" guns in its stores: Yawn.<p>Sure, the blogosphere has been on fire over the …

The social network reportedly wants to raise more than $1 billion before the US holiday, which is just two months away.<p>Twitter and its bankers will be fat and happy come Turkey Day if inside sources have their facts straight.<p>The social network is gunning to get its shares on the public market prior …

NBC’s Domenico Montanaro look at the week ahead in politics, including a congressional committee beginning work on immigration as well as holding the first Boston bombings hearing. Mark Sanford faces voters in South Carolina. Can he complete a political comeback or will Democrat Elizabeth Colbert …

In the debate over reforming U.S. gun laws, opponents and supporters cite powerful statistics: 26 dead, 20 of them children, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. Some 3,300 killed in the U.S. by firearms since Sandy Hook.<p>But one key number is rarely mentioned: more than …

By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News<p>In an indicator of the continued influence of the nation’s largest gun-owners’ group, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and other Republican politicians addressed the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston Friday, celebrating the defeat …

Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, said Friday that Americans should "stand up and fight for our freedoms."<p>Speaking at the first National Rifle Association annual meeting since the Manchin-Toomey background checks bill failed in the Senate last …

The Grio’s Joy Reid and Democratic strategist Ed Rendell discuss the first day of the NRA’s annual convention, which featured speeches from some of the right-wing’s biggest stars—from Sarah Palin to Rick Santorum.

Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) attacked President Barack Obama while speaking in Houston at an annual NRA retreat on Friday.<p>Jindal assured the audience that Obama "will not be able to touch our freedom to keep and bear arms in Louisiana."<p>"In Louisiana, we are serious about the right to keep and …

The National Rifle Association chose its new president earlier this week, selecting Jim Porter, a 64-year-old Alabama attorney and the organization's current first vice president, to take the reins from outgoing president David Keene.<p>Porter will assume his new role on Monday, bringing with him a …

The FBI's recent announcement that it has placed former Black Panther and escaped prisoner Assata Shakur at the top of its Most Wanted list and the doubling of the reward for her capture by the State of New Jersey is a development that progressives should not ignore. This newly intensified effort …

Though he gave a spirited defense of abortion rights, Obama did not use the word “abortion” once during his remarks<p>President Obama addressed more than a thousand Planned Parenthood supporters at the organization's national conference on Friday, becoming the first sitting president to do so.<p>After …

Peggy Noonan has just attacked President Obama in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>.<p>Among other things, she complained about "that imperturbable drone... the sense that he is trying to teach us, like an Ivy League instructor taken aback by the backwardness of his students. And there's the unconscious …